Life is dominated by two spirits. One is powerful and one is weak. One controls the other is controlled. One leads the other is led. Everything is vulnerable and everything is powerful. There is great dissatisfaction at either extreme. I try to make myself stronger, I learn, I adapt, but at the same time I want to be vulnerable. I want to be known. I want to be helped and supported. A seedling struggles to survive and compete for light and space and it is strong because it needs. A girl dreams of a man who is strong and vulnerable, who can fight and who can cry. We'd like to know powerful people and people who can help us, but there is no friendship unless we are able to help them. To connect with a mouse one must show the mouse inside oneself.
2007-07-09 07:29:04 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
absoloutely profound but the concept is older than your thoughts, the concept originates from Ying & Yang.
If you came up with your idea without that reference, Kudos to you for arriving at the next level of enlightenment.
2007-07-09 07:37:20 · answer #1 · answered by anthony m 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're distracted by the duality here. Try seeing the bigger picture. Without mice, cats would go hungry. Predators need prey, and the strong need the weak to be around to use, or else they lose the purpose behind their strength.
Consider one small example. There used to be a _Dog 'N' Suds_ place in Champaign. It was sold to people as being the best place ever, millions were spent on a huge, shiny restaurant and ad campaign....and the place *folded* up inside of three months. What happened?
Lousy service, bad food. Why? Simply put, too much money went into the thing, and *everyone* who worked there was promoted into being a Manager just for showing up. When everyone is a King, the toilets don't get cleaned. The food doesn't get made to standards.
So am I justifying your duality there, the whole kill/get killed mentality, the whole "use or get used" state of affairs?
Not really. I'm just saying....you have to see the bigger picture.
You can't just *dump* all of your poor, weak and faint of heart in the gutter and leave them to die. They matter. They too are people worthy of life They mean more than just a Mass Media Scapegoat for everyone else to point at and sneer at and spit on.
Read some Victor Hugo, some _Les Miserables_. And keep in mind that the two "halves" of the yin-yang symbol are actually stuck together and contained *in a Circle*. Keep the Circle in mind, the bigger picture. In a world of all darkness, nobody sees. In a world of all *light*, we are *also* snowblinded.
Everyone matters. Every human at least *starts out* worthy of life. Predator, prey....strong, weak.... We are all People here. Seriously. It's about time we grew up and acted like it. ^_^
Thanks for your time.
2007-07-09 14:43:53 · answer #2 · answered by Bradley P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is profound in the sense that it demonstrates how the learned egoic self bounces around inside our heads. You're describing the 'belief in duality' which drowns out your essential nature/true Self which is all the power you need. Your ego wants to be helped and supported because it is attached to the idea of vulnerable intimacy. Once you've experienced it you will move on to something more worthwhile - likemindedness and pursuing your passion.
2007-07-09 14:41:59 · answer #3 · answered by MysticMaze 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Frankly, it is profound, simply by virtue of people rarely mentioning it.
Basically, you are aware of something a lot of people don't really think about -- that every creature has both strengths and weaknesses. The strengths compensate for the weaknesses, and the weaknesses compel/demand attention and action from the strengths.
Of course, human ego leads many to overemphasize their strengths in order to hide their weaknesses [real or perceived], which is why we have jerks. :-)
2007-07-09 14:37:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ah yes, profound.
You might be interested in the concept of 'nondualism'. It can be described as how things are the same thing, and yet different; combined, and yet divided. I encourage you to look up this term and see if it can help guide your thought processes. With hope, you can reach the conclusions you are looking for.
2007-07-09 18:45:12 · answer #5 · answered by larsor4 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have just described the basic premise of Jungian psychology, (light and darkside psyche, consciousness/subconsciousness,) all monotheistic control models, (the need to "submit" to a higher power, for the offered benefit of personal power,) and the reason that guys that buy the "gotta be all man, all the time," propaganda die alone and despised in a seedy hotel with a bottle of Beam in their hand, somewhere in Arkansas. Unless they're gay...then the bottle isn't in their hand...
2007-07-09 14:39:39 · answer #6 · answered by Dr Bob 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
As profound as the sound of one hand smacking you upside the head lol...
Just kidding... i'm one of those kids who talks smack to her friends out of love.
Actually i would enjoy it if the world had more people with thoughts like yours... Richness is in complexity...
What if life is dominated by three spirits? Or nine?
Or an infinite amount of them?
Then what, eh? Would we run out of adjectives and/or metaphors to describe them?
2007-07-09 14:38:05 · answer #7 · answered by The cat 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Second rate Zoroastrianism with a dash of Zen thrown in for seasoning. Gee really profound!
2007-07-09 14:34:37 · answer #8 · answered by eagleperch 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the other spirit in life isnt weak its just not as strong as the other...besides...the big concept of the whole thing is on spirit makes the other complete because it is everything that the other is not....
2007-07-09 18:09:44 · answer #9 · answered by acarisg 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
profound: penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
2007-07-09 17:06:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋